Brendan J. Crosby was the Library Media Specialist at Silver Lake Regional High School in Pembroke. He stood over six feet tall, dressed in a three-piece suit every day, and smoked a pipe, back in the days when you could smoke a pipe in a library in a high school. He was also my friend. […]
One Thousand Words
A Moment (Seemingly) Caught in Amber This is a photo of me taken on the day of my senior prom in 1983. No one would blame you if your eyes came to a rest on my Javier Bardem “No Country for Old Men” haircut or the grey tuxedo. However, I see so much more. This […]
High Rises and Hard Falls
Edlund Design does it again. When I was developing a media presence for my work featuring Adrian Tannhauser, I turned to Nick Edlund, one of my oldest and dearest friends for the visuals. Edlund Design specializes in creative and effective design for print and digital media. Nick reads each of the Tannhauser stories, zeroes in […]
Why Not Shakespeare?
In this weekend’s By the Book interview in The New York Times Book Review, author Geraldine Brooks wrote, “I taught writing at Harvard last year and half my students had never read a Shakespeare play. That set my hair on fire.” Mine too. How are we now letting high school students get by without any […]
More Tannhauser? You Got It!
My latest short story– “High Rises and Hard Falls” featuring Adrian Tannhauser was just published in Ground Fiction Vol. 3. Check it out on Amazon here: Ground Fiction Vol. 3. Get your copy for the latest Tannhauser adventure; stay for the other awesome tales found between the covers! * * * Cold weather affects my injury differently. Sometimes […]
Milestones
When I started my undergraduate educational journey at Harvard Extension School I did so that I could be the person that my daughter thought I was. When I started my graduate degree I did it solely for me. Friends would ask me what I wanted to do when I finally achieved these goals. My answer […]
